True cost · Project management software
Make true cost: the 36-month total
Make costs $324 over 36 months on Core at 1 account, billed annually, before 3 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Make costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Make's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 1 account. Where Make publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Make charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Make's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Make list price
3 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Make's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Usage and overage
Stated on the pricing page: Each module action consumes a credit; data-heavy workflows burn faster.
What triggers it. Usage, not people, drives this. That makes it the least predictable component of a three-year Make commitment and the one most worth instrumenting early.
How to avoid it. Ask Make for hard caps or alerting rather than silent overage billing. A limit that stops work is recoverable; an invoice you did not authorise is not.
Trial and free-tier conversion
Stated on the pricing page: Free tier capped at 15-minute schedule intervals.
What triggers it. Fires when free stops being free. Worth mapping precisely, because free-tier limits are where workflow automation tools do most of their upgrade engineering.
How to avoid it. Ask for the trial to be extended to cover a full billing cycle of real use. Vendors grant this far more often than buyers ask.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Stated on the pricing page: Enterprise apps and overage protection only on Enterprise tier.
What triggers it. A gate rather than a fee. It costs nothing until the day it costs a full tier upgrade, and it invalidates the $324 figure above the moment it does.
How to avoid it. List every gated capability you will plausibly need in three years, then price Make at that tier from the start. Comparing entry tiers you will not stay on is how a $324 plan becomes a much larger invoice.
How that compares across project management software
The median project management software tool we track charges $9 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 1 account for 36 months, that median works out at $324.
Make lands $0 below that figure, 0.0%, measured across 30 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $324 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Enterprise adds custom functions, 24/7 support, advanced security, Value Engineering, and custom credit pools.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Make cost over three years?
$324 on Core at 1 account, billed annually, which is $9 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Make annually save money?
Make publishes the same effective rate either way on Core, so there is no prepay discount to capture. Keep the monthly option unless the vendor offers something for the commitment.
What does Make charge for outside the plan price?
3 lines: usage and overage, trial and free-tier conversion, feature gated to a higher tier. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Make cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $324; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $357.48. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
Is Make expensive for project management software?
Over 36 months it lands $0 below the $324 category median, measured across 30 tracked tools on the same basis.
Price Make on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Make official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 1 account. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.